Not swapping menu created on archive page

  • donmcleman

    (@donmcleman)


    5 years ago

    I’ve tested my conditional settings on standard menus and the plugin works fine on pre-existing locations.

    However I want to create a conditional menu on an archive page which did not have a pre-defined menu location. In my functions.php file I have registered a new menu. I have created a new menu location and added the menu, which works. I used this code:

     add_action( 'woocommerce_before_main_content', 'artwork_categories_menu' );
 
function artwork_categories_menu() {
wp_nav_menu( array( 'menu' => 'artwork_categories', 'container_id' => 'artwork_categories_menu_container' ) );
 
}

    This ‘hard-coded’ menu is not changed by conditional rules. I have tried an alternative method of creating a menu location (without hard-coding a menu into it) but it does not show up in my WordPress list of menu locations.

    Am I going about it all wrong…?

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  • Plugin Author themifyme

    (@themifyme)

    Hi!

    The menu you have added is not a “menu location” (it outputs a specific menu) so the plugin cannot know about it. The solution however is very simple, you need to “register” a custom location and use that instead (please see: https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-themes/how-to-add-custom-navigation-menus-in-wordpress-3-0-themes/). So first, add:

    
function wp12474353_custom_new_menu() {
  register_nav_menu('artwork',__( 'Artwork Categories' ));
}
add_action( 'init', 'wp12474353_custom_new_menu' );

    Now if you go to Appearance > Menus you will see this new location show up. Assign a menu to it.
    Next, you have to update your snippet so wp_nav_menu will show the menu you have selected to be displayed in that location, so update that to:

    
wp_nav_menu( array( 
    'theme_location' => 'artwork', 
    'container_id' => 'artwork_categories_menu_container' )
);

    That’s all! Now you can customize that menu location in the plugin however desired!

    Hope this helps.

    Thread Starter donmcleman

    (@donmcleman)

    Thank you so much for this detailed response. Your helpfulness is really appreciated.

    Plugin Author themifyme

    (@themifyme)

    Happy to hear that. Please give us a review here: https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/conditional-menus/reviews/#new-topic-0

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